Harrison’s H4 chronometre. Image Credit: Jordiferrer/Wikipedia The first clockmaker did not have to guess what time it was. Long before gears, wheels and moving hands appeared, people had already learned to track the passage of a day by watching the Sun, Moon and stars. Sundials, water clocks and other simple devices gave earlier societies ways…
Jos Buttler etched his name into the record books on Saturday, overtaking MS Dhoni to become the wicketkeeper with the most sixes in international cricket. The England batter achieved the milestone during his sensational 131 off 64 balls against India in the fifth T20I at the Rose Bowl. Buttler smashed eight sixes in his innings,…
Varun Chakaravarthy (Getty Images) India captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bat first in the opening T20I of the five-match series against England at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street. The visitors have made one notable change from the squad that toured Ireland, with Varun Chakaravarthy returning after recovering from a foot injury. Teenage…
Uncertainty over who will pay Iran $300 billion (Getty Images) As US secretary of state Marco Rubio heads to the Gulf to defend Washington’s proposed peace deal with Iran, one provision has emerged as a major source of concern among America’s Arab allies — a planned $300 billion reconstruction and development fund for Tehran. While…
Kolkata: RVNL started concrete deck launching between piers 326 and 327 of the Orange Line after 8pm on Friday and proceeded steadily throughout Saturday. Since the Chingrighata flyover has been shut and Nicco Park bound traffic is being diverted through a slip road built by RVNL, there were traffic snarls on the Bypass as cars…
Police removed loudspeakers from around 1,500 religious institutions across Bengal in two days. KOLKATA: Loudspeakers were removed from around 1,500 religious institutions across Bengal in two days as part of a police crackdown on pollution complaints, report Zeeshan Jawed & Dwaipayan Ghosh. At least 1,279 mosques and 199 temples were ordered to remove loudspeakers for…
New Delhi: The latest case has rekindled grim memories of the infamous 2014 rape case involving the driver of an app-based cab service, triggering concerns over regulatory overhauls which were promised after that crime.On the night of Dec 5, 2014, a 25-year-old finance executive hired a cab to return home to north Delhi. The driver…
In 2012, Pradip Trivedi showcased 100 publications covering Sachin Tendulkar’s 100th international century AHMEDABAD: For most people, old newspapers are waste. But for some, they can become a court case reference, a student research resource or a civic record. Pradip Trivedi, Tushar Shah, Haji Mamdani, Vadilal Doshi and Kanti Vadoliya have spent years preserving what…
Pearly razorfish begin life as females before some naturally transition into males.- National Geographic photo Fishing is known to reduce fish populations and change the size and age of fish found in the wild. But a new study suggests that the effects may go much beyond.Researchers have found that heavy fishing may be changing the…
Union home minister Amit Shah, CM Suvendu Adhikari and BJP state chief Samik Bhattacharya at an event to lay foundation stone for an Amul plant Kolkata: Gujarat will keep bringing investments to Bengal, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday while virtually laying the foundation stone for Amul’s Rs 700-crore integrated dairy complex. The…
